The Circle of Life (and how three roosters changed my life)

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a sensitive topic and Rachel has a big story to tell. It is time to talk about how she culled three roosters and ate them on the farm. Beginning the episode with a discussion on nourishment, veganism, postpartum, and losing and gaining weight, Rachel shares where she was before and how she feels in her body now. She then shares how she came to this place - from being vegan to finding a deep urge within her to live off the land the way her ancestors did before her. And finally, she comes to her roosters and shares the entire story, from hatching them, to culling them, and eating them. Tune in for a vulnerable episode on learning, reverence, and life and death. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast, I talk about nourishment and life and death. I tell the story of where I am, post-veganism and postpartum, how I feel in my body. I talk about gaining and losing weight. And I talk about this deep urge, I feel, to really live from the land,
0:23.9	which of course leads me to the big story of how we called three of our roosters and ate them
0:30.6	here on the farm. It's a sensitive topic and a big story for me to tell. So thank you so much for listening.
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1:23.9	All right, my darlings, welcome back to the show. I am so happy that you're here.
1:30.9	In this exact moment, I am sitting in my podcast Nook, drinking a warm cup of raspberry leaf tea, wearing a pair of jeans that I have not been able to fit into
1:38.3	since long before my last pregnancy. And I don't know how many of you will resonate with this, but I didn't have
1:45.8	this first time around when I was pregnant the first time. I sort of was able to fit into my
1:51.0	old clothes kind of quickly. I was 28. I was living a different lifestyle. My metabolism was
1:57.3	through the roof. I was vegan. I was completely malnourished and underweight.
2:02.6	We can get into all of this today if you want. But this time around, I gained a lot of weight in
2:07.8	this pregnancy and I've been really holding that weight since pregnancy, which hasn't been a huge
2:14.2	thing or the end of the world or I feel comfortable in my body most of the time.
2:19.3	But I've been really missing my favorite pre-pregnancy clothes, especially. There's two pairs of
2:26.6	jeans, really cute pairs, very hippie, flared, my two favorite pairs of jeans that I own
2:33.5	in the whole world that I have not been able
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